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NEWS >POLITICS > MITT ROMNEY KIND OF CARES THAT PEOPLE THINK HE DOESN’T CARE ABOUT POOR PEOPLE
MITT ROMNEY KIND OF CARES THAT PEOPLE THINK HE DOESN’T CARE ABOUT POOR PEOPLE
February 4 2012
Washington, D.C. – In every political campaign there will be gaffes. Fatigue brought on by long hours and endless questions inevitably result in boneheaded answers and comments on occasion. It’s the nature of the game and everyone makes one or two during their run for whatever office they are trying to achieve.
Sometimes, though, those gaffes can be more severe than others and have a much more deleterious effect on a candidate, something which is only amplified when the stakes for the election are as high as they are in the race for President of the United States, something Mitt Romney is finding out the hard way after making rather indelicate comments to a CNN reporter.
Romney, the wealthy son of a wealthy man, has long been criticized for his attitudes towards the non-wealthy, almost self-characterizing as an elitist who has little in common with ordinary people, something which may lose him votes come November. Now, after making those comments to CNN, Romney is starting to backtrack, realizing that some people in the country do in fact care about poor people, which means of course that he needs to care about poor people as well, which he does, he really does, honestly.
“My focus is on middle-income Americans. These are the people who've been most badly hurt during the Obama years. I'm not concerned about the very poor,” Romney told Soledad O’Brien who was shocked by the answer in her own inimitable way. 
Romney did say that he believed the poor had a safety net and if it had holes he would patch them, thus ending his symbolism and getting down to real things.
Romney has been criticized from both sides of the aisle for the comments, Liberals who are painting him as an elitist, and Conservatives who believe he is too soft, leaving Romney a little confused where to stand.
“These types of comments may engage the Republican base but he pretty much has those people locked up anyway. The issue is going to be the swing votes and showing that you don’t care about a significant portion of those people, flat out saying it in fact, is not going to help in November,” said Scrape TV Political analyst Gabriel Kinsey. “Granted, many of the very poor probably won’t vote anyways. They don’t take food stamps on the bus and many of them don’t have the types of shoes that will allow for a long walk, but other people do care about poor people, well they like to think they do anyways and that will be an issue.”
Competitors Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul both expressed their concern for the poor. Rick Santorum was apparently confused by the concept of poverty.
“In politics the issue is really impressions, not facts. Like it or not people vote for who they want to vote for, not the person who will necessarily do the best job. They want the thing they present and if that thing is weak or ugly, they will vote for the other guy. It’s the way politics works,” continued Kinsey. “If people remember this in a couple of months it will likely hurt the Romster in the election, but of course that is a while away and by that time people will likely have forgotten about the poor because that’s what tends to happen. It remains to be seen whether this will have any impact whatsoever in November.”
Romney has made it clear that he won’t be touching any poor people on the campaign, though that is common for Republicans.
Edward Bastil, Political Correspondent
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